Thinning peaches

General Fruit Growing
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Too bad.

I should have checked. Maybe, @Olpea, could post Part Ii. :grinning:

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Thanks Mamuang. I looked at my youtube account and it looks like I deleted the video at some point. Sorry about that.

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Mark,
I thought this site has a time limit on videos. It seems to have such a limit on pics at some point if I understand it correctly from one of the posts.

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No thinning of peaches for me this year , the frost did that for me, pretty lucky really just enough frost to kill about 90 percent of the blooms

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We had a pretty good fruit set this spring here Jason. Most varieties have plenty set and will require a good amount of thinning. There are the usual varieties which never set very good which will have the usual light crops.

Glad to hear your peaches are going to make in south MO.

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I wished I was that luck… I think I lost my complete peach crop… everything else looks pretty good…

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Thinning peaches is not a popular topic this year here in IL. My peaches were thinned by low temperature and have none left😱

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Same for me. I have only handful flowers on each tree, so no need to thin this year.

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I feel you !!!

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Sorry to hear that

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None to thin here on my four trees, the buggers didn’t even bloom for me this year. That figures, considering we didn’t have a late freeze.

Don’t know why they didn’t bloom, other than a really hard freeze killed the buds. @BobC, did yours bloom, and got zapped by a freeze, or did like mine did and not bloom at all?

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I’m not following- are you saying you’re lucky because you lost 90% of your blooms?

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Because I only need ten percent for a full crop, when all of the flowers turn into fruit I spend hours twisting off little peaches

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Okay, got it. So basically what you’re saying is that peaches overset by 90%? Wish I had that problem! About how many peaches will you have then per tree?

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Oh I don’t know, I really only have one really big old peach tree that fruits. But thinning it by hand is quit time consuming. I didn’t understand as much about pruning twenty years ago and so it is to tall to reach easily on the highest limbs so I stand on a block of wood to thin the little buggers. The rest of my peaches are rootstock I grew from seed and grafted and just transplanted to permanent locations this spring

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I don’t remember a freeze. The blooms look like they just didn’t open. They’re there just didn’t open.

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Same here, strange. I talked to a lady this morning, and she said her peaches did bloom, so I don’t know what happened to mine.

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We had a mild winter here and quite a few buds on some trees didn’t open. It’s typically the trees which have the most problem producing good crops.

The first few years we had such good crops on all peach trees I didn’t understand how any peaches could be unproductive. In fact, I welcomed less productive trees because they required less time to thin.

Eventually, I came to appreciate the varieties which over set because they regularly have full crops, unless the weather is utterly deplorable.

A 90% loss on some varieties is still a full crop. On other varieties a 90% bloom loss leaves you 20 peaches per tree. :x::stuck_out_tongue::-1:

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The dormant blooms on my peach tree won’t take much subzero temperatures, maybe -5 , colder than that and they are toast.

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So, which varieties do these two extremes?